Sentence examples for was booty from inspiring English sources
noun
A form of prize which, when a ship was captured at sea, could be distributed at once.
This was booty seized during the opium wars and then the Boxer uprising of 1900.
As the philosopher Lord Buckley once observed, "Yea, the looty was booty".
Established in 2008, not only was Booty Tune the first label to release footwork in Japan, it was in fact one of the first worldwide.
That doesn't mean the movie isn't sometimes fun! DJs like Alesso and Nicky Romero pop up in unexpected places, an animated drug sequence had my date chortling out loud, and I was booty bumping in my seat when Tchami's remix of AlunaGeorge's "You Know You Like It" came on during a club scene.
Their wealth is booty to those who kill them.
"The state is booty," Petkoff said when I met him in his small office in Caracas.
That's booty as in pirate treasure, scavenged from a churning sea of the imagination.
The pieces are almost all broken and twisted, wrenched from their original mounts, and assumed to be booty.
People were booty dancing across the world before it was known as twerking, and they will be popping it long after the name changes.
"These children were booty of war and, somehow, the kidnappers abetted the parents' murder," Roisinblit, the vice president of the Grandmothers of the Plaza de Mayo, told me.
A newly declassified 1972 report to the BM trustees admits that the Benin bronzes were "booty" but were nevertheless legally acquired by the museum.
